The Pursuit of Equality in the West Schiavone Aldo
The Pursuit of Equality in the West Schiavone Aldo One of the world's foremost historians of Western political and legal thought proposes a bold new model for thinking about equality at a time when…
Specifikacia The Pursuit of Equality in the West Schiavone Aldo
The Pursuit of Equality in the West Schiavone Aldo
One of the world's foremost historians of Western political and legal thought proposes a bold new model for thinking about equality at a time when its absence threatens democracies everywhere.How much equality does democracy need to survive? Aristotle argued that some are born to command and others to obey. Political thinkers have wrestled with that question for millennia.
Later the Romans upended the debate by asking whether citizens were equals not in ruling but in standing before the law. Antiphon believed that men, at least, were born equal. Aldo Schiavone guides us through these and other historical thickets, from the first democracy to the present day, seeking solutions to the enduring tension between democracy and inequality.Turning from Antiquity to the modern world, Schiavone shows how the American and the French revolutions attempted to settle old debates,
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